[lazarus] Unrelated to current discussion, but soon to beimportant...

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, Jeff Wormsley wrote:

> On 7/22/99, at 9:39 AM, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: 
> 
> >On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, Cliff Baeseman wrote:
> >
> >> guess we do need to look at this..
> >> 
> >
> >You are not the first to notice this problem.
> >
> >Luckily, the solution is simple:
> >If you use the mingw32 version of make.exe, there is no problem, since it can
> >handle command-lines of more than 128 characters.
> 
> Any idea where to get this?  Is it a shell?  I don't think the cygwin had the
> problem either, but I wasn't really interested in running bash on win32.
> I had thought the 128 char command line was a limitation of the DOS box,
> and couldn't be overcome.  I know that most DOS programs that hit this
> wall overcame it by passing parameters in a file instead of on the command
> line.  Does make support this ability?

No, I meant that the make command itself can handle more than 128 chars.
The shell cannot, except I think in batch files.

In any case I use the 'Unix for NT utilies' which come with a ksh kind of shell,
it also handles >128 chars on the command line.

Michael.